Professor
Werner Max Sollors
Born (1943-06-06 ) June 6, 1943 (age 81) Nationality American, German Education
Wake Forest College (now University), attended 1964-65
Columbia University, attended 1969-70
Freie Universität Berlin, Ph.D. , 1975
Harvard University, postdoctoral study 1977-78
Occupation(s) Author, Professor Spouse Married Children Parents
Ferdinand Sollors, teacher
Martha Sollors, homemaker
Awards
1981 Guggenheim fellow
1990 Constance Rourke Award for the best essay in American Quarterly
1997-98 Walter Channing Cabot fellow
1999-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities fellow
2003 Lifetime achievement award for outstanding scholarship and criticism of the field of U.S. ethnic literary studies, MELUS
2003 Sylvia Lyons Award for contribution to scholarship on the life and works of Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles W. Chesnutt Association
2006 Everett Mendelssohn Mentoring Award, Harvard University
Werner Max Sollors (born June 6, 1943) is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and of African American Studies at Harvard University . He is also Global Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi .[ 3]